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The Darius series has long taken a backseat to some of the more prominent shoot 'em up series, despite featuring some absolutely amazing releases on the various 32-bit game consoles. Darius Twin still features much of the aquatic-themed shooter action of its brethren, but for some reason the game comes off feeling very...

About The Game

The evil alliance under the leadership of Belser is attacking your world; as pilot of a Silver Hawk fighter, your goal is to stop them!

Darius Twin is a side scrolling shooter similar to other games in the Darius series. You'll fly through a series of different stages, each with numerous enemies and ending with a large boss. You begin the game with a limited amount of fire power, but after shooting certain enemies power ups are left behind to increase your capabilities. Unlike many of the Darius games, if your ship is destroyed you don't lose all of the weapons you've collected; likewise you also continue on at the same point rather than being sent back to a checkpoint.

Similar to many of the Darius games there are different routes that can be taken towards the final stage. At the end of each stage, you are shown a map and can select the next stage you would like to complete.

This has to rank as one of my least favourite entries in the series. If you want a game which shows up the limitations of the SNES when it comes to 2D shooters, this is it. Even the Master System conversion of Darius 2 feels more active than this.

Wikipedia said that in order to get the best ending of the game, you have to go through it without losing a single life. Is that true?

@Keeper - well, either way, I still think it'll be fun. The only reason I asked if it was going to be challenging is because Shiryu wrote in his description of the gameplay footage that there were moments where it was hard; I was just curious. But even if not's hard, I think it might be good.

Hey everybody,I'm a new owner of an old Super Nintendo We've been playing Darius throughout the whole christmas and couldn't get past level 3. Now, we're not interested in cheats but there is a code for each level (like when you pass level 1 the code is 'HH02') but we have no idea where to enter the code... please help!